Have you ever ever felt restless with yourself, it’s like something inside of you that you are not able to identify but it does not let you relax? Well for me, it has happened, quite often, therefore I wanted to satisfy ‘that’ with clubs, many drinks & lots of fun. I loved going to the famous Mirage in upper Manhattan after that, we’d usually pass by some more places until the sun gave us the good morning.

The sad thing was when I came to my apartment “that” feeling became pain and loneliness, I could not explain why I felt this way if I was doing what I liked to do. Time passed and I felt the same, very excited to dress up, get ready, spritz perfume and go with the girls and at the end of the night was also always the same.

Since I was a child I liked cooking and as I grew it was always me who cooked for my friends, it was my style, my way, what I used to connect with people. But like everything in that time, I got tired of it and even threw out my pots in a moment of rebellion to get rid of my gift!

Much time passed and something changed in me when I learned of the gifts that God gives, of course at first my attitude was “MEEEEEE, TO MEEEE … and why would God give me a gift of cooking?”

I won’t even go into the time it took me to believe that yes, cooking is a gift that God gave me, even greater the charge that I have,to feed the needy … feed the hungry, but this time it’s not just with a hot meal it is with the best of meals .. the word of God.

But how, when, why to me?

Believe me all these questions are stumbling blocks in my path, not believing, not having the certainty that God is with us in good Dominican… a mess! (un lio)

Now I’m still the same Mimi as always, only this Mimi is a better version. At last I found my purpose and perhaps it is not as marvelous and exciting as other positions in the kingdom but there is something more marvelous, knowing that He is with me.